“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

also dissatisfied with your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take their eyes

 

of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on

 

almost chest

 

my appearance you’re at least not

 

flatter yourself. It just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you

 

you doing here, then?

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

man came closer, as if there was still space

 

you don’t participate in the stupid

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck,

 

was twice her size,

 

where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the

 

the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining

 

was romantic, yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched

 

eyes turned to

 

in this

 

that woman smiled at me—a meaningless, sad

 

pieces. The face

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you…

 

Then, that man is…

 

as if someone had turned

 

The man and the woman vanished and I lost

 

***

 

shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to blink

 

I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down

 

I? Who got me here?

 

through the broken fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes

 

I wanted to cry.

 

lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t

 

him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

weak hand and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater

 

voice was low and hoarse, almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why

 

It felt like

 

everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie

 

in my own body thinking about

 

him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because I thought

 

“What…?”

 

for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed. It’s always

 

was something I knew very well, something that had revealed

 

they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and

 

always been

 

“Always.”

 

and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all

 

in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t seem to

 

finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering if he hated

 

cracking such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with

 

me fully, enveloping me in his warmth, but he

 

wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his

 

why my head felt so

 

I didn’t

 

Because it’s not your fault. It’s

 

arrogant

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